Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools and is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.

• PART 1: WRITING Academic writingThe writing situationThe writing processesParagraphsPresenting writingPART 2: COMMON ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS Critical analysisArgumentLiterary analysisInformative writingOral presentationsPART 3: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES EmphasisConcisenessParallelismVariety and detailsAppropriate wordsExact wordsPART 4: GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES Verb formsVerb tensesVerb moodVerb VoiceAgreement of subject and verbPronoun formsAgreement of pronoun and antecedentReference of pronoun to antecedentAdjectives and adverbsMisplaced and dangling modifiersSentence fragmentsComma splices and fused sentencesPART 5: PUNCTUATION The commaThe semicolonThe colonThe apostropheQuotation marksEnd punctuationOther marksPART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS Spelling and the hyphenCapital lettersItalics or UnderliningAbbreviationsNumbersPART 7: RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION Developing a research strategyTracking sourcesFinding SourcesEvaluating and synthesizing sourcesIntegrating sources into your textAvoiding plagiarismDocumenting sourcesMLA documentation and formatAPA documentation and formatChicago documentation and formatCSE documentationCommonly misused words Credits Answers to selected exercises

Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools and is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.

• PART 1: WRITING Academic writingThe writing situationThe writing processesParagraphsPresenting writingPART 2: COMMON ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS Critical analysisArgumentLiterary analysisInformative writingOral presentationsPART 3: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES EmphasisConcisenessParallelismVariety and detailsAppropriate wordsExact wordsPART 4: GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES Verb formsVerb tensesVerb moodVerb VoiceAgreement of subject and verbPronoun formsAgreement of pronoun and antecedentReference of pronoun to antecedentAdjectives and adverbsMisplaced and dangling modifiersSentence fragmentsComma splices and fused sentencesPART 5: PUNCTUATION The commaThe semicolonThe colonThe apostropheQuotation marksEnd punctuationOther marksPART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS Spelling and the hyphenCapital lettersItalics or UnderliningAbbreviationsNumbersPART 7: RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION Developing a research strategyTracking sourcesFinding SourcesEvaluating and synthesizing sourcesIntegrating sources into your textAvoiding plagiarismDocumenting sourcesMLA documentation and formatAPA documentation and formatChicago documentation and formatCSE documentationCommonly misused words Credits Answers to selected exercises

Jane E. Aaron has taught writing at New York University and several other schools and is the author of eight successful and long-lived composition textbooks, including The Little, Brown Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook.

• PART 1: WRITING Academic writingThe writing situationThe writing processesParagraphsPresenting writingPART 2: COMMON ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS Critical analysisArgumentLiterary analysisInformative writingOral presentationsPART 3: EFFECTIVE SENTENCES EmphasisConcisenessParallelismVariety and detailsAppropriate wordsExact wordsPART 4: GRAMMATICAL SENTENCES Verb formsVerb tensesVerb moodVerb VoiceAgreement of subject and verbPronoun formsAgreement of pronoun and antecedentReference of pronoun to antecedentAdjectives and adverbsMisplaced and dangling modifiersSentence fragmentsComma splices and fused sentencesPART 5: PUNCTUATION The commaThe semicolonThe colonThe apostropheQuotation marksEnd punctuationOther marksPART 6: SPELLING AND MECHANICS Spelling and the hyphenCapital lettersItalics or UnderliningAbbreviationsNumbersPART 7: RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION Developing a research strategyTracking sourcesFinding SourcesEvaluating and synthesizing sourcesIntegrating sources into your textAvoiding plagiarismDocumenting sourcesMLA documentation and formatAPA documentation and formatChicago documentation and formatCSE documentationCommonly misused words Credits Answers to selected exercises